The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-02
A HIGH-NECK WINTER.
The Mistress of the White House Will
Set Fashions for WASHINGTON

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30-The Ereninq
Critics society column to-day contains the
folowing 1.-The winter on the eve of
Presidential nomination is always a gay
one, so it is pretty well defined that the
coming one must be a success. Next month
will witness an extraordinary activity in
home hunting. There are not many who
will entertain as magniticently as Mrs.
Whitney though two or three Northern
ladies who intend setting up their house
hold goods here this winter come for no
other purpose. All these are delicious bits
of intelligence for that large and ever in
creasing class of insatiate party goers-
never party givers.
This, too, is the time of year when So
ciety people long for change in the old
established order of things. All agree now
that afternoon tea brushes are failure. No
body is pleased at the attempt to widen the
conventional half-dozen cOngenial people
about tea table into a wild attempt to en-
terrain as many hundreds. They are crying
out for change. Nobody is able to invent
anything to fill its place and also fulfill
ones social obligations. Early hours are
another of the reforms by which even the
gayest set would willingly abide if only
somebody with prominence enough would
take the stand. Hostesses are tired of being
obliged to wait for their invited guests until
10 o'clock, and often half past it. AS arule
they go to sleep meanwhile, and it is trying
to ones temper to have to wake up at that
seasonable hour when their neighboIs are
going to bed.
A keen little lady, who usually tells the
signs of the times pretty well, insists that
this is to be high neck winter. The social
statutes in London establish the line at
which ones gown must be cut and no lady
dares to present herself at court unless this
rule has been strictly followed. 1t follows
that watever the fair mistress Of the White
House ordains should and will receive as
gentle but wholesome rebuke to the wearers
of the extraordinary low-cut gowns here by
having her own cut modestly and becom-
ingly. 1t is also quite in keeping
with the views of the best and most artis-
tic designers or creators of feminine
fashions, but who have found their taste
laid aside to crafty their customers desire
for the species of unwomanly and unwhole-
| some nOtoriety. Mrs. Cleveland being on
the side of this very important reform, it is
fair to presume that her example and en-
enlargement will go further than any other
force at the present hour On the whole,
while with the exceptions named there are
not many radical changes talked about, it is
safe to presume that this is not the year to
start the ticket system TO keep uninvited folks
from the parties. In political life those who
are entertaining are doing it for purpose,
and it will not make much difference if a
stray goat here and there runs in with the
sheep 1t is pretty well understood that the
few who entertain so literally are painful
thorns in the flesh of many others, who
want to do something for themselves, but
hate the dreadful contrast One of the
more prominent bidders for the Republican
De- L. Il
quietly among the dinner-givers, not to
offer more than three brands of champagne
at one feast. What success he is having has
not yet transpired.